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Wildlife crossing built over the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park.

Combined with fencing to keep the animals off the road, these structures have reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80%—and by more than 96% for elk and deer alone.

Those who've made an effort to learn don't have a duty to teach those who haven't.

Walmart heir wants museums to attract more people and donates $40 million to help.

Alice Walton's foundation Art Bridges is providing $40 million in grants to 64 museums around the country .

She believes all museums should be free npr.org/2023/10/11/1204655934/ #museums #ArtBridges

Wiktionary nous donne "l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions" et la variante "le chemin de l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions". Ça marche pour moi. fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%E2%80

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If you're blind:

Does it help if we tag abstract art images in toots with an "alt" description? What kind of description do you appreciate?

(my take is: I label abstract paintings with just "abstract painting" so as to make them easy to ignore but I don't try to describe them because it would be futile in my opinion much like summarizing poetry)

@rl_dane German 'ö' is pronounced more or less like a French 'eu'. The closest in English would be the 'u' in 'purr'.

Interesting spelling for "Ampèrian". In French, it's spelled "ampérien" with an acute accent, not "ampèrien" which would look and sound wrong even though it's derived from "Ampère".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%
fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/amp%C3%

Here's something you don't get with digital images or ordinary prints: gold and silver effects.

Did you know it takes 40 Olympic-size swimming pools of sap to make 1 Olympic-size swimming pool of maple syrup?

I need to find out when the word for "mind" (Latin: mens, Sanskrit: manas) disappeared from the French language and some other European languages.

I call the mind the last taboo of rationalist society.

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